DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A group of 24 veterans organizations signed a letter slamming the Department of Veteran Affairs under Secretary Denis McDonough’s leadership for allegedly stonewalling veterans’ access to timely medical care when the VA bureaucracy fails to meet their needs.
The letter, which was sent Monday and obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation, accused the Biden-Harris VA of undertaking a “concerted and strategic effort” to hinder veterans from accessing community care options when direct VA care is not immediately available.
Community Cares, a Trump-era program greenlit in 2018 as part of the VA MISSION Act, allows veterans to get specific care from non-VA providers if the department approves the request.
Specifically, the letter calls on McDonough to approve community care referrals made by VA physicians…
